champagne lifestyle of two cage fighters who helped plan Britain's biggest cash robbery has been revealed for the first time.

After the £53milllion Securitas raid, Paul 'The Enforcer' Allen and Lee 'Lightening' Murray splashed out on sumptuous villas and expensive jewellery, while
thousands of pounds were also spent on plastic surgery for their wives
and girlfriends.

But their decadent existence ended
almost as quickly as it had started when they were arrested and jailed
in Morocco over their part in the Kent raid.

The details have come to light after Allen, extradited from Morocco to face trial, yesterday dramatically admitted his role in the heist.

Last October, Murray's trusted lieutenant Paul Allen, left, was jailed for 18 years for his part in the robbery

Lee Murray pictured in a fight. He has been held in prison since his arrest

Allen - a friend and rival of model Katie Price's
cage fighter boyfriend Alex Reid - admitted three charges of conspiracy
to kidnap, conspiracy to rob, and conspiracy to possess firearms and will be
sentenced next Monday.

He made the admissions on the basis that he was neither one of the
robbers who entered the depot nor one of the kidnappers of depot
manager Colin Dixon and his family.

Murray, 32, one of the most notorious figures in cage fighting, is still languishing in a Moroccan cell.

Allen, minder and driver for Murray, fled to Morocco with his boss after Britain's biggest cash robbery in February 2006.

Mastermind Murray cannot be extradited due to the fact he has a Moroccan-born father.

Police fear he may not even face trial there or - if he does - will escape with a token sentence.

Such a scenario would leave him free to get hold of the £32million still missing from the raid.

Roger Coe-Salazar, chief Crown prosecutor for Kent, said: 'The Securitas robbery was meticulously organised and we have never had any doubts that Paul Allen played a pivotal role in the planning and execution of it.'

Allen and Murray fled to begin a luxury lifestyle as police began rounding up their fellow conspirators.

But the men's four-month spree of snorting cocaine, gambling in casinos and luxury shopping was to end in the rat-infested basement of a Moroccan jail.

Allen, of Chatham, Kent, spent 20 months in the Rabat 'hell hole' before being extradited while Murray, whose father was Moroccan, claimed nationality to avoid British justice.

Prosecutor Sir John Nutting QC said the men planned and executed the terrifying Securitas heist with 'military precision'.

Depot manager Colin Dixon and his family were kidnapped to allow the gang to gain entry, and 14 staff members were terrorised and tied up at gunpoint as the robbers stuffed cash into a 7.5-ton lorry during the 66-minute raid.

Kick boxer Lea Rusha, car salesman Stuart Royle, unemployed Albanian
Jetmir Bucpapa, and garage owner Roger Coutts were last year all jailed
indefinitely with minimum terms of 15 years after being convicted of
taking part in the robbery.

Inside man Emir Hysenaj, an
Albanian, who filmed inside the depot using a miniature camera, was
given a determinate sentence of 20 years.

Oyster shell armchairs give an indication of the style throughout the fugitive's home

Ferrari-driving Murray, the ringleader, was one of the world's
leading cage-fighters, earning £30,000 a bout at events around the
world, the Old Bailey heard.

He masterminded the
record-breaking hold-up just months after he suffered a near-fatal stab
wound outside a star-studded West End party.

Cane Patterson, another man named in court as taking part in the heist, has become the one who got away.

He is suspected of being the robber who, disguised as a policeman,
was the first one to force his way into the depot on the night of the
heist.

Patterson is now believed to be holed up in the West
Indies but detectives have scaled down their search for him because
evidence identifying him is compromised by the fact that he has a twin
brother.

Allen, a father-of-three, claimed at his Old Bailey trial to have
known nothing about the fact that his best friend Murray was planning
the heist, but his guilty pleas mean he is now facing a lengthy spell
in jail.

Plans are under way to make a Hollywood film about the robbery plot.

Prosecuting
authorities and police vowed they would not give up searching for the
missing millions and the plot's ringleader Lee Murray, who is in
Morocco.

Former cage fighter Paul Allen pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to three charges linked to the £53 million Securitas robbery

Missing millions: Police have so far found £21 million of the stolen haul

Roger Coe-Salazar, chief Crown prosecutor for Kent, said outside court: 'Paul Allen claimed in his first trial that the prosecution could not prove his involvement in the robbery but, faced with a re-trial, he has now admitted his guilt.

"Allen was prepared to plead guilty to all counts on the basis that he was not actually at the depot on the day of the robbery, but was intrinsically involved in the planning and execution both before and after the robbery.

"In accepting the pleas, I took into account a raft of finely balanced factors but foremost in my mind was ensuring the judge would still have sufficient sentencing powers to reflect Allen's criminality and protect the public for great many years.

"This conviction successfully brings to a close a main chapter in the Securitas robbery.

"I stress, however, that this is not the end of the story. Working with Kent Police, we intend to track down the remaining millions and bring any outstanding offenders to justice.

'We are currently working in close co-operation with the Moroccan authorities in their judicial inquiry into Lee Murray.'